Fanfiction Meme Day 10

10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

I deliberately went outside my comfort zone for Reliable, and was pleasantly surprised by how well it worked out. Dragon Taming is Charlie/Neville, and that too surprisingly made sense and was easy to write.

I had to push myself to write the Smut for a kinkfest, and while I thought Draco would be easy, he just came out nasty. To Pansy, to Hermione, to Ron - and just generally. And I'm not happy with how he came out in Changes, a Hermione/Draco piece. It just didn't feel right.

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Fanfiction Meme Day 11

11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

Would it surprise anyone to find out that doggrell seems to come highest on my list? I do fairly well at a silly descriptive poem all about naughty nights in Hogwarts :-)

Second is light drawing-room style comedy. I love reading it, and I'm rather proud of Still Life fitting into the genre.

Angsty romance with lots of Unresolved Sexual Tension - or more like Unresolved "Why Don't They Notice Me" stuff is another favourite. I do feel, though, that they tend to be resolved in too many "fairytale" endings. And I find it very hard to write completely realistic ends to them too.

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